Managing IP Failover Groups

The Profitbricks IP failover feature helps to minimize packet loss for high availability or failover setups in the event that one of the virtual machines experiences an outage. By setting up IP failover groups, you can define the virtual servers that are part of your high availability setup.

From the drop-down menu, select the IP address for the new IP failover group.

Add group members (NICs) by selecting their checkboxes.

Select the Primary IP checkbox if you want the IP address of the IP failover group to be the NIC's primary IP address. (recommended, checkbox is usually selected by default)

Confirm your changes by clicking Create Failover Group.

(Optional) Make further changes to your virtual data center.

Provision your changes.

The IP failover group has been created.

Note: Please ensure that a high availability setup has been configured on your virtual machines (including the traffic management between VMs in case of an outage). Setting up an IP failover group in DCD alone does not implement high availability.

Modifying or Deleting an IP-Failover Group

In order to modify an IP-failover group, do the following:

Select the LAN on which the IP-failover group you want to modify has been created.

In the Inspector, open the IP Failover tab.

Click on the IP address of the IP-failover group.

The properties of the selected IP-failover group are displayed:

Change the Master of an IP-Failover Group

Upon initial provisioning, the master of an IP failover group needs to be identical with the master of the HA setup on your virtual machines. When the master of your HA setup changes hereafter, you don't have to update the master of the IP failover group necessarily.